Hannah Kobayashi, a budding photographer from Hawaii, was heading to New York City on November 8 when she missed her connecting flight during a stop at Los Angeles International Airport. Her family has said that she returned to the airport on November 11, but did not board a flight.

As the LAPD determines that missing Hawaii woman Hannah Kobayashi intentionally missed her connecting flight to New York on November 8, her family pushes back against that narrative, while also noting some facts of the case the LAPD chief got wrong in his statement to commissioners.

The family of Hannah Kobayashi, a Hawaii woman who vanished into LA after missing a connecting flight to New York, hit back at claims made by LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell about the case.